Inside Track with John McIntyre

The best wine was left until last, and boy was it needed! For the weekend’s other three senior hurling preliminary quarter-finals served up a series of sobering defeats, totalling 42 points. The first knock-out games of the title race had left several teams punch drunk.

By the time Castlegar and Sarsfields took to the field at Kenny Park on Sunday, question marks over the wisdom of even having preliminary quarter-finals were starting to circulate. Killimordaly had been hammered by 17 points; Athenry finished 11 points adrift of Tommy Larkins, while Moycullen had........

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